The module2 of the survey on the perception of risk and benefit from energy technologies in India.

Following is the complete data set with 1099 responses.

Following graph show the distribution of perceived risk on the likert scale

Following graph show the distribution of perceived benefit on the likert scale

Now I am converting the likert scale for various scales used in the survey to numeric values from 1 to 5, Rather Not Say/Don’t know is printed as NA. Some variables had to be reverse coded as well.

Following table shows the summary statistics of perceived risk from different energy technologies.

Following table shows the summary statistics of perceived benefit from different energy technologies.

bar plots for means of perceived risk and benefit from various energy technologies

bar plots for median of perceived risk and benefit from various energy technologies

Conducted PCA on all independent variables in the data set. The following table shows the variables that are part of the resultant principal components.

Following tibble shows variance explained by each Principal component

Scree plot of the previous table. Including only till PC7

Coding and Combining items on Kahan scale

Median score for Kahan on invidualism scale

Kahan scale median score for Hierarchy scale

Calculating individualism score and hierarchy score for each respondent

scatter plot of Kahan scale scores around the median scores on Individualism and Hierarchy scales.

checking distribution of scores on Individualism scale

checking distribution of scores on Hierarchy scale

Coding and combining items on the eco-political scale - characteristics of the perceiver

PCA test on the new eco-pol scale - characteristics of the perceiver

## Importance of components:
##                           PC1    PC2    PC3    PC4     PC5     PC6     PC7
## Standard deviation     1.4705 1.2373 1.1700 1.0027 0.96948 0.90729 0.86862
## Proportion of Variance 0.1966 0.1392 0.1245 0.0914 0.08545 0.07483 0.06859
## Cumulative Proportion  0.1966 0.3358 0.4602 0.5516 0.63706 0.71189 0.78048
##                            PC8     PC9    PC10    PC11
## Standard deviation     0.83091 0.80331 0.78471 0.68059
## Proportion of Variance 0.06276 0.05866 0.05598 0.04211
## Cumulative Proportion  0.84325 0.90191 0.95789 1.00000